Met: 'Corruption of this kind will not be tolerated'

Detective Chief Superintendent Gordon Briggs, who is overseeing the inquiries
into phone hacking, says Detective Chief Inspector April Casburn behaviour
is "totally unacceptable" after she was found guilty of offering
to leak information to the News of The World.

"It's totally unacceptable for a serving police officer to leak confidential information to journalists for private gain. In doing so they let down the public and they let down their hard-working honest colleagues.

"To act in that way is a gross breach of public trust. I hope today's verdict demonstrates our commitment to rooting out this kind of corruption and demonstrates that corruption of this kind will not be tolerated in the Metropolitan Police Service."